Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 266 289
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 -82
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 495 550 761
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.16% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.24% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 211 308 463
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,125 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,199 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.03% -3.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £96,250 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55,019 44,239 66,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.97% 92.93% 88.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33,006 22,069 51,040
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.07%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -8 447 £75,000 +12.87% 121
London +69 254 £95,000 +24.59% 57
Work from Home +16 190 £75,000 +15.38% 70
UK excluding London -84 188 £63,076 -2.96% 91
North of England -23 51 £75,000 - 24
South East -56 51 £57,500 -11.54% 30
Midlands -36 35 £63,076 -2.96% 15
North West -15 31 £77,500 +1.64% 20
West Midlands -3 26 £60,288 -7.25% 9
East of England +24 24 £60,100 -7.54% 10
Yorkshire -34 17 £68,538 +33.73% 4
South West -41 15 £62,500 +4.17% 9
Northern Ireland -16 11 £75,000 +26.20%
East Midlands -44 9 £80,000 +25.49% 6
Wales -1 4 £61,001 +2.64%
North East -9 3 £63,076 -23.54%
Scotland -22 3 £42,000 -29.33% 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.23%) Confluence
2 12 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.61%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) CICS
5 2 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (3.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.61%) Trello
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 65 (13.13%) SaaS
2 53 (10.71%) AWS
3 45 (9.09%) Azure
4 24 (4.85%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.84%) Pulumi
6 15 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (3.03%) GitHub
7 11 (2.22%) GCP
8 10 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.82%) H2O.ai
9 9 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.82%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.82%) PaaS
10 5 (1.01%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.81%) Collibra
11 4 (0.81%) Google Analytics
11 4 (0.81%) Miro
12 3 (0.61%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.45%) Broadband
2 10 (2.02%) HTTP
3 9 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.41%) WAN
4 7 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.21%) LAN
5 6 (1.21%) RTP
6 5 (1.01%) Wireless
7 4 (0.81%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.61%) Multicast
9 2 (0.40%) 5G
9 2 (0.40%) ATM
9 2 (0.40%) VPN
10 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.20%) Intranet
10 1 (0.20%) MPLS
10 1 (0.20%) Network Security
10 1 (0.20%) NGN
10 1 (0.20%) Value-Added Service
10 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.05%) Relational Database
2 23 (4.65%) Power BI
3 21 (4.24%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.04%) RDBMS
5 17 (3.43%) Metadata
6 10 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.41%) Tableau
8 6 (1.21%) SAP BW
8 6 (1.21%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.01%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.61%) Big Data
10 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.61%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.40%) DB2
12 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.06%) JIRA
2 19 (3.84%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.81%) ERwin
4 3 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 192 (38.79%) Finance
2 179 (36.16%) Social Skills
3 114 (23.03%) Marketing
4 97 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (10.71%) Banking
6 47 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (8.89%) Retail
8 41 (8.28%) Legal
9 37 (7.47%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (7.27%) Financial Institution
11 29 (5.86%) Law
12 28 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (4.65%) Public Sector
14 20 (4.04%) Manufacturing
15 19 (3.84%) Digital Economy
16 18 (3.64%) Back Office
17 17 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (2.63%) Electronics
19 10 (2.02%) Automotive
19 10 (2.02%) Billing
Job Titles
1 139 (28.08%) Product Manager
2 71 (14.34%) Lead
3 65 (13.13%) Senior
4 37 (7.47%) Senior Manager
5 31 (6.26%) Product Owner
6 28 (5.66%) Senior Product Manager
7 22 (4.44%) Product Lead
8 19 (3.84%) Digital Product Manager
8 19 (3.84%) Product Management Director
9 16 (3.23%) Change Manager
10 12 (2.42%) Data Manager
10 12 (2.42%) Developer
11 11 (2.22%) Development Engineer
12 10 (2.02%) Security Engineer
12 10 (2.02%) Senior Development Engineer
12 10 (2.02%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 10 (2.02%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (2.02%) Software Development Engineer
12 10 (2.02%) Software Engineer
13 9 (1.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.84%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (2.63%) REST
3 9 (1.82%) Keras
3 9 (1.82%) PyTorch
3 9 (1.82%) TensorFlow
3 9 (1.82%) YAML
4 6 (1.21%) .NET
5 3 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (0.61%) Node.js
6 2 (0.40%) EDI
6 2 (0.40%) Next.js
7 1 (0.20%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.20%) Flask
7 1 (0.20%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.20%) PySpark
7 1 (0.20%) RESTful
7 1 (0.20%) SOAP
7 1 (0.20%) Spring
7 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 93 (18.79%) Product Ownership
2 47 (9.49%) Onboarding
3 41 (8.28%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.63%) Social Media
6 11 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.02%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.41%) Data Fabric
10 7 (1.41%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.21%) IoT
11 6 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.01%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.81%) EPoS
13 4 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.44%) Linux
2 19 (3.84%) Unix
3 5 (1.01%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (52.12%) Roadmaps
2 204 (41.21%) Agile
3 143 (28.89%) Product Roadmap
4 115 (23.23%) Product Strategy
5 111 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 101 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (18.38%) Mentoring
9 86 (17.37%) AI
10 77 (15.56%) Analytics
11 73 (14.75%) User Experience
12 72 (14.55%) Information Security
12 72 (14.55%) Product Vision
13 66 (13.33%) Decision-Making
14 64 (12.93%) Coaching
15 61 (12.32%) Project Management
16 59 (11.92%) Business Development
17 52 (10.51%) B2B
18 51 (10.30%) Value Proposition
19 48 (9.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.70%) Python
2 33 (6.67%) Java
2 33 (6.67%) SQL
3 21 (4.24%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.04%) Go
5 19 (3.84%) Bash
6 9 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.01%) C#
8 2 (0.40%) COBOL
8 2 (0.40%) JCL
8 2 (0.40%) PHP
8 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.20%) R
9 1 (0.20%) Scala
9 1 (0.20%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 93 (18.79%) Degree
2 42 (8.48%) Master's Degree
3 32 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.24%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.43%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.62%) MBA
8 7 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.41%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.41%) PMP
9 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.81%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CSPO
10 3 (0.61%) HNC
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CISM
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.05%) QA
2 16 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.02%) NCSC
4 10 (2.02%) NIST
5 6 (1.21%) GDPR
5 6 (1.21%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.01%) IFRS
6 5 (1.01%) SLA
7 4 (0.81%) PMO
8 3 (0.61%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.61%) SEPA
9 2 (0.40%) COREP
9 2 (0.40%) FINREP
9 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) PSD2
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.40%) vSphere
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.04%) Terraform
3 19 (3.84%) Ansible
3 19 (3.84%) Argo
3 19 (3.84%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.84%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.67%) Google
3 16 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.22%) Databricks
5 9 (1.82%) Adobe
5 9 (1.82%) Dell
5 9 (1.82%) NVIDIA
6 8 (1.62%) Oracle
6 8 (1.62%) SAP
7 7 (1.41%) Foundry
8 5 (1.01%) Zoho
9 4 (0.81%) Sage
9 4 (0.81%) YouTube
10 3 (0.61%) Apple
10 3 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.61%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.61%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.61%) Reuters
10 3 (0.61%) Tenable
10 3 (0.61%) Trayport